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Sir Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton. Lakesha martin 4-27-11. Sir Isaac Newton. Bio information. (1642 - 1727) England. Sir Isaac Newton was buried at Westminster Abbey in a tomb inscrib

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Sir Isaac Newton

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  1. Sir Isaac Newton Lakesha martin 4-27-11

  2. Sir Isaac Newton

  3. Bio information • (1642-1727) England. Sir Isaac Newton was buried at Westminster Abbey in a tomb inscrib • Isaac Newton was born prematurely on Christmas day 1642 (4 January 1643, New Style) in Woolsthorpe, a hamlet near Grantham in Lincolnshire • Let mortals rejoice that so great an ornament to the human race has existed." When he was barely three years old Newton's mother, Hanna (Ayscough), placed her first born with his grandmother in order to remarry and raise a second family with Barnabas Smith, a wealthy rector from nearby North Witham. Much has been made of Newton's posthumous birth, his prolonged separation from his mother, and his unrivaled hatred of his stepfather. Until Hanna returned to Woolsthorpe in 1653 after the death of her second husband, Newton was denied his mother's attention, a possible clue, and throughout his life he verged on emotional collapse, occasionally falling into violent and vindictive attacks against friend and foe alike.to his complex character. Newton's childhood was anything but happy

  4. Famous for • He is most famous for his Three Laws of Motion (inertia, force, reciprocal action) and Law of Universal Gravitation. • Newton is so famous for his calculus, optics and laws of motion, it is easy to overlook that he was also one of the greatest geometers. • . Newton once wrote "Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things

  5. Life experience • In 1687 Newton published PhilosophiaeNaturalis Principia Mathematic, surely the greatest scientific book ever written. The motion of the planets was not understood before Newton, although the heliocentric system allowed Kepler to describe the orbits • Newton's childhood was anything but happy, and throughout his life he verged on emotional collapse, occasionally falling into violent and vindictive attacks against friend and foe alike.

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